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A jury in Brooklyn awarded more than $500,000 to a man who sued the city after he suffered a broken ankle during an arrest for shoplifting. The jury awarded Kevin Jarman $510,000 on Wednesday for the injury. Jarman, 50, filed the suit after pleading guilty to shoplifting at a Queens Pathmark in 2011.

Marijuana can increase short-term paranoia, new study led by Oxford University researchers says. The study shows that the active compound in the drug THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) can induce paranoia. The research also found that low self-esteem and changes in perception led to cannabis users feeling more paranoid than non-users.

Cocktails that use energy drinks as one of the main ingredients have now been around for a good time, becoming one of the most popular choices in bars and clubs across the United States and the World. According to a recent study it appears that mixing these caffeinated energy drinks with alcohol will increase the consumer’s desire to keep drinking. …

Johnny Winter died yesterday, Wednesday, July 16, at his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland at the age of 70. The cause of death was not announced but he had seemed to be in very frail health when he appeared in Chicago a couple of times this year.

Long time ESPN anchor Stuart Scott who is currently battling from cancer was honored with Jimmy V Perseverance Award on the annual ESPY Awards on Wednesday night.

A 55-year-old Chicago man was ordered held on $90,000 bail for allegedly spitting in a Cook County Circuit Court judge’s face this week. David Nicosia got in the 79-year-old female African-American judge’s face and called her “Rosa Parks” as she was smoking in the Daley Center plaza Monday afternoon, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Erin Antonietti said.

IT’S BEEN A decade since Kim Cattrall famously portrayed the confident and sultry Samantha Jones on the hit HBO series Sex and the City. On Sunday (July 20), the B.C.-raised actor returns to the television network’s Canadian channel—HBO Canada—in a new series, Sensitive Skin.

A GRIEVING dad received an overwhelming response from internet users when he asked them to photoshop a picture of his tragic baby daughter so she looked healthy. Nathan Steffel appealed online for help to digitally remove the medical tubes from the only photos he has of little Sophia, who died of a liver condition.

A Brazilian man claimed he turned 126 last week, which would make him the oldest person to ever live by nearly a decade. Jose Aguinelo dos Santos, a son of slaves, said he was born on July 7, 1888, just months before Brazil abolished slavery.

Tech giant Microsoft is expected to announce more than 6,000 job cuts early on 17 July with the recently-acquired Nokia handset division set to take the hardest hit, according to media reports. This would be the biggest layoff by the company in its 39-year history. The job cuts come as Microsoft looks to integrate the Nokia phone business and put …

A 23-year-old has permanently damaged her eyes and may even be blind after reportedly wearing the same pair of contact lenses continuously for 6 months. Doctors say by not removing and cleaning the lenses regularly a tiny single-cell amoeba was able to thrive in the student’s eye by eating her cornea.